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TO ALL WHOM IT MAYA CON CERN:

4Be it `known that I, EDGAR H UsoN, of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have `invented an Improved Boat-Windlass; and I do hereby ,declare that the following is a full .and exact description thereof, reference being vhad to the accompanying drawings, and the letters thereon. y

My object is to make a: boat-windlass especially adaptedto the use of canali-boats, where a comparatively light and rapid motion is desirable. For this purpose I use a device that is composed of several parts, and so acts as to give a continuous forward motion to the cable, rope, or chain by which the boat is held or moved.

vThis device consists of a peculiarly-shaped plate or piece of fmetal, supported ou two standards, which are s o hinged that they have an oscillating motion while supporting the -plate; and to the plate are attached two clicks or dogs, which are so weighted or fitted with springs as to be in constant action against the teeth of a cog or ratchet-wheel, and whichwheel is fast to or a part of a cylinder or necked drum or head, about which the cable,'rope,.or chain is wound. A lever, which, for compactness, is made apart of or adjustable to one ofthe standards, actuates the whole-` Reference` is had-tothe drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my boat-windlass, and

Figure 2 a sectional view, showing the construction thereof.-

In fig. 1, A is the heador necked drum of the windlass, and Bis the cog or ratchet-wheel, and C the upper click attached to the slotted plate E, land D is the lower click or dog, also fast Ato the plate E, and G is' the shaft of the windlass, the lever and other parts being also seen so far as visible externally.

Ing. 2 ,'by the red lines B, the ratchet or cog-wheel is indicated, covering part of the peculiarly-shaped plate E E E, which plate has. the clicks or dogs C and D bearing on the ratchet or cog'wheel. The plate is supported by and hinged to the vibratory or movable rods or standards and F, thel latter of which4 is also made as a lever to move the' whole windlass. An aperture, L, in the plate, allows the plate to move about the vshaft G. The several parts make a whole, which is attached to a bed-piece, J, or directly to the boat.

AThe action of the windlass is that when the lever Fis drawn to the left hand, the clickC pushes the I ratchet and makes the windlass movewhile the click Dois retracting; and when the lever F is moved to the right hand, theclicl: D causes motion of the wndlass, as the click C is retracting, and thus the head or drum rotates n'cne and theV same direction'at each backward and forward motion of 'the lever, and draws inv the rope, cable, or chain.- v

The other parts and uses of my -invention are apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appertains.

- Ulaz'm. 1. I claim making a boat-windlassiby the use of the slotted plate E about the shaft G, supported on the vibratory standards K and F, and having the clicks C and D, which act in the described manner on the ratchet or cog-wheel B .Iandmhead A, thus producing by both the forward and backward motions of-the lever, one and 'the same motiorraf'the rope, cable, or chain, as described 2. I-cluim`-the combined whole,'mnde as figured and described, for the purpose of a convenient and 'useful EDGAR HUsoN. l

lWitnesses:

T. L. Pintos, G. '1L WHALEY. 

